Learning to Hire? Hiring as a Dynamic Experiential Learning Process in an Online Market for Contract Labor

Learning to Hire Teams

Crowdsourcing and human computation are being employed in sophisticated projects that require the solution of a heterogeneous set of tasks. We explore the challenge of composing or hiring an effective team from an available pool of applicants for performing tasks required for such projects on an ongoing basis. How can one optimally spend budget to learn the expertise of workers as part of recru...

Experiential learning as a method to enhance experiential teaching

Online Learning in a Contract Selection Problem

In an online contract selection problem there is a seller which offers a set of contracts to sequentially arriving buyers whose types are drawn from an unknown distribution. If there exists a profitable contract for the buyer in the offered set, i.e., a contract with payoff higher than the payoff of not accepting any contracts, the buyer chooses the contract that maximizes its payoff. In this p...

Learning Contract: A method of Teaching in nursing

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Learning Systems Organising Reflection – Organisational Learning as Collective, Experiential Learning

The article discusses shifts and continuities in practical and theoretical work on organisational learning since the mid 1980s within a tradition at the Work Research Institute (WRI) in Oslo promoting work place democracy. Projects over 20 years are reviewed. All the projects discussed have had a participatory action research design. The point, however, is the emerging justifications for the ch...